Details
Contributor Hopcraft & Co., printer.
Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Title [Lu Lu, the man bird] [graphic].
Publisher New York : Hopcraft & Co., 21-28 Barclay St
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1880
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; 8 x 13.5 cm. (3 x 5.25 in.)
Description Illustrated trade card depicting Lu Lu the man bird wearing a hat with wings and winged shoes flying in the air over circus tents, one of them labeled "Lu Lu". Lu Lu the man bird was one of the main features of W.C. Coup's Monster Four-Ring Circus and Paris Hippodrome.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger from text printed on verso.
Advertising text promoting the Great Paris Hippodrome and W. C. Coup's New United Monster Shows printed on verso.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Digitized.
Subject Coup, W. C. (William Cameron), 1857-1895.
Circuses & shows -- New York (State) -- New York.
Circus performers.
Genre Trade cards -- 1870-1880.
Chromolithographs -- 1870-1880.
Provenance Phillips, Emily, 1822-1909, collector.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| trade card - Great [1975.F.505]
Accession number 1975.F.505